The Google Play Store Comes to Twitter

The Google Play Store, formerly known as the Android Marketplace, has finally launched it’s own Twitter account. It may sound like a pretty minor event, but it could actually be a fairly big deal for all of the Android device owners out there. Many businesses today have not only taken to Twitter to answer customer questions and handle complaints, but also to run promotions.

The latter is exactly how Google plans to use their new @Googleplay handle. According to Alex Dumitru over at Android Geeks the Mountain View company “will begin tweeting special promotions, updates and exclusive contents through its official Twitter live channel.”

The Play Store account already has over 28,000 followers, despite having posted only two tweets, and no deals, so far. It”s actually a bit surprising that it took Google this long to set up something that the Amazon App Store had from day one. Regardless, it’s better late to the party than never.